Can Student Health Insurance Plans Help?
Traditionally, many college health centers have primarily been funded by a segregated health fee, charged to students on a semester by semester basis. Recent rising health care costs, budget cuts and stagnated health fees have hit many student health services hard, prompting them to move away from traditional segregated models in favor of increased fees-for-service funding plans. Dana Mills, MPH, chair of the American College Health Association’s (ACHA’s) Student Health Insurance Task Force and director of the student health center at Wisconsin’s Marquette University, agrees that in the short term, many colleges will need to supplement, if not replace, their segregated health fee. “There are colleges that will continue to use the segregated health fee to support campus health services,” he says. “Budget limitations notwithstanding, it is their culture and conforms with the expectations of their stakeholders. But the vast majority of colleges and universities will be counting on increas
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